St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-18

whose name was beloved wherever the
English language was spoken. Mr..
Holmes had made the memorial the sub
ject of
THESE MEMORABLE VERSES:
Welcome, thrice welcome is thy silyery gleam,
Thou long imprisoned stream!
Welcome the tinkle of thy crystal beads,
AS FLASHING raindrops to the flowery meads,
AS summers breath to Avon's whispering
reeds
From rock-walled channels drowned in ray
less night,
Leap forth to life and light;
Wake from the darkness of thy troubled
dream.
And greet with answering smile the morn
ings beam!
No purer lymph the white-limbed Naiad
Than from thy chalice flows:
Not the bright spring of Africs sunny
shores,
Starry with spangles washed from golden
Nor CLASSY stream Blandusia's fountain
pourS,
Nor wave translucent where Sabrina fair
Braids her loose-fowing hair,
Nor the swift current, stainless as it rose
Where chill Arveiron steals from Alpine
SHOWS.
Here shall the travelerstay his weary feet
To seek thy calm retreat:
Here at high noon the brown-armed reaper
rest.
Here. when the shadows, lengthening from
the west.
Cali the mute song-bird to his leafy nest,
Matron and maid shall chat the cares away
That brooded er the day.
While flocking round them troops of chill
dren meet,
And all the arches ring with laughter sweet.
Here shall the steed, his patient life who
spends
In toll that never ends,
Hot from his thirsty tramp DER hill and plain.
Plunge his red nostrils, while the tortlring
Drops in loose loops beside his floating name;
Nor the poor brute that shares his masters
= lot
Find his small needs forgot
Truest Of-humbie. long-enduring friends,
Whose presence cheers whose guardian care
defends.
Here lark and thrush and nightingale shall
sip,
And strange, shy wanderers fold their lus-
trous piumes
Fragrant from bowers that lent their sweet
perfumes @S'
Where Pastums rose OR Persia's lilac blooms;
Here from his cloud the eagle stoop to drink
At the full basins brink.
And whet its beak against its rounded lip,
His glossy feathers glistening as they dip.
Here shall the dreaming poet linger long,
Far from his listening throng-
or'lnte nor Tyre his trembling hand shall
bring:
Here no frail Muse shall imp her crippled
wing.
No faltering minstrel strain mis- throat to sing.
These hallowed echoes who shall dare TO
/ Whose tuneless voice would shame.
Whose langling chords with iarring notes
would wrong
The nymphs that heard the SWan of AvonS
song?
What visions greet the pilgrims raptured
What ghosts made real rise.
The dead return,-they breathe,-they live
again,
Joined by the host of Fancy's airy train,
Fresh from the springs of Shakespeare's
quickening brain.
The stream that slakes the souls diviner
thirst
Here found the sunbeams first:
Rich with his fame, not less shall memory
prize
The gracious gift that humber wants sup
plies.
Ger the wide waters reached the hand that
gave
To all this bounteous wave.
With health and strength and joyous beauty
flaught:
Blest be the generous pledge of friendship,
From the far home of brothers love, un-
bought.
Long may fair Avons fountain flow. en-
rolled
With storied shrines of old
CaStalias spring. EgeriaS dewy cave,
And Horeb's rock the God of Israel clave
Land OF our fathers, ocean makes lis two.
But heart to heart is true.
Proud is your towering daughter in the
West
Yet in her burning blood reign contest
Her mothers pulses beating in her breast.
Thislloly fount, whose rills from heaven de-
scend,
Both foreheads bathed in that baptismal
And love make one the old home and the
new!
Mr.. Irving read the poem with splen-
| did effect, amid recurring plauditS, and
then
| CONTINUED AS FOLLOWS:
The occasion wnlcn has drawn us here to-
| day has exceptional interest and special sig
niticance. We have met to celebrate a trib-
| ute which has been paid to the memory of
Shakespeare by an American citizen, and
| which is associated with the jubilee year of
the queen. The donor of this beautiful mon
personal friend Mr.. Childs is
| not only an admirable rep
resentaiive of the public spirit and enter
| prising energy of Philadelphia. but is also
man who has endeared himself to a very
wide circle by many generous deeds | do
not wonder at his muniicence. for to men
like him it is second nature. / rejoice in
the happy inspiration which prompted the
gift which SO worthily represents the com
| mon homage of two great peoples to the most
| famous man OF their common mce We are
honored by the presence of distinguished
American, the political representative of his
country i'll England. But it would
do far less than justice to Mr. Phelps to
affirm that he is with us in formal and di-
plomatic sense On this spot, of all others,
| Americans cease to be aliens, Hear, hear
for here they claim our kinship with the
great actor of English speech. How respon-
| sive is American life and literature to the i'll
OF any other man to round the thought and
character of generations. The simplest
| records of Stratford show that
| THIS is THE MECCA
! OF American pilgrims and that the place
which gave birth to Shakespeare is regarded
as The fountain Of the mightiest and most
| enduring inspiration of our mother tongue
1t Is not difficult to believe that amongst the
| A. in the visitors book in the historic house
| hard by there are some whose colloauiaI
| speech still preserves phrases which have gone
down from Shakespeare's time. Some idioms
| which are supposed to be of American inyen-
| ton can he traced back TO Shakespeare, and
| we can imagine that in the audience at the
Old Globe theater there were ignorant and un-
lettered men who treasured up something of
SnakeSpeares imagery and vivid portraiture
and carried with them over the ocean the
| thoughts, words, solemn version and bright
| silver dream which helped to
| nurture the transplanted stock. fCheers. |
For II IS above all things as a poet OF
, er.yr 'h"t Shate sr,nare Is s,,nrn,,e. He
TIQfe in c;2,.s Tl5a :t5=:s;:5;iia made no ar.
| PEAL 10 the multitude. Books were for
limited class but the theater was open to ALL
How many Englishmen to whom reading
was labor, or an impossibility. must have
| drawn from the stage which Shakespeare en-
| riched some of the most priceless Jewels of
4 the human mind. One of the inscrip-
I tions on this fountain is the most expressive
j tribute 10 ShakeSpeare which the neonle's